She attended the University of Vermont, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy in 1974 and an M.Ed.
Wade has published five poetry collections, including: Celestial Bodies (2002), Green (1998), From Istanbul/Istanbul'dan (1998), and Empty Sleeves (1990).
Her poems have also appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The New Republic, Southern Review, and other publications.
She co-translated a selection from the poems of Melih Cevdet Anday together with Efe Murad under the title "Silent Stones: Selected Poems of Melih Cevdet Anday" (Northfield: Talisman, 2017) and was the winner of the 2015 Meral Divitci Prize.
Some of these translations also appeared in literary journals such as "The American Reader", "Five Points", "Denver Quarterly", "Guernica", "Critical Flame", "Turkis Poetry Today" "Poet Lore", "Asymptote", and "Two Lines".